How To Install python-os-client-config on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-os-client-config on Debian 9. python-os-client-config is OpenStack client configuration library - Python 2.x

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-os-client-config on Debian 9.

What is python-os-client-config

python-os-client-config is:

Os-client-config is a library for collecting client configuration for using an OpenStack cloud in a consistent and comprehensive manner. It will find cloud config for as few as 1 cloud and as many as you want to put in a config file. It will read environment variables and config files, and it also contains some vendor specific default values so that you don’t have to know extra info to use OpenStack

os-client-config honors all of the normal OS_* variables. It does not provide backwards compatibility to service-specific variables such as NOVA_USERNAME.

If you have environment variables and no config files, os-client-config will produce a cloud config object named “openstack” containing your values from the environment.

This package contains the Python 2.x module.

There are three methods to install python-os-client-config on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install python-os-client-config Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install python-os-client-config using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python-os-client-config

Install python-os-client-config Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python-os-client-config using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python-os-client-config

Install python-os-client-config Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install python-os-client-config using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-os-client-config

How To Uninstall python-os-client-config on Debian 9

To uninstall only the python-os-client-config package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-os-client-config

Uninstall python-os-client-config And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python-os-client-config and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-os-client-config

Remove python-os-client-config Configurations and Data

To remove python-os-client-config configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-os-client-config

Remove python-os-client-config configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python-os-client-config configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-os-client-config

Dependencies

python-os-client-config have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-os-client-config package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.